Raypointments

Project Description

 

Everyone needs appointments. Need a form signed by your advisor? Need a haircut? Does your car need an oil change? Make an appointment! But how do you do that? Send an email, use an online form, or even worse, make a phone call? Wish there was a better way? Me too. The goal of this project is the ultimate appointment making app. Rather than tackle the general case, this project will keep all use cases in mind, but focus on students making appointments with faculty/staff at Bucknell. This means researching and understanding how students want to make appointments and how faculty/staff want to schedule appointments. Most likely there isn’t one solution but several different approaches that will have to be implemented (app, online, text message, automated voice, etc) through one central platform.

Goals

Assess how students make appointments now and how they would like to in an ideal world.
Assess how faculty schedule appointments and how they would like to in an ideal world.
Find a logical set of appointment making/scheduling features/approaches and create several prototype systems. Evaluate the results. From these results, refine/improve system and deploy as a service to the Bucknell community.

Resources

Could tie into building management system/occupancy sensors to detect if person is in their office and most likely times they are present.

 

Group Summary

Make an application that takes into account of how students and faculty schedule appointments. Eventually this application should be scaled to handle other general cases beyond just Bucknell faculty and student interactions. In summary, the application will have various ways that help people manage their appointments in a friendly matter.

Identified Pains

  • Multiple appointment Methods such as email, calendar, text, etc.
  • Not every professor uses the standard appointment utilities
  • There can be varied behaviors between students and faculties that can cause complications in standardizing

Proposed Problem Description

Different mediums of scheduling appointments and different preferences for certain mediums. Lack of integration between different mediums such as making an appointment on a calendar then scheduling that room through another medium.

Proposed Goals

  • Scheduling an appointment with a room will also book the room, so integrating different mediums together in a usable and presentable format
  • Find trends in the behavior of students and faculty due to appointments
  • Create a service that integrates multiple mediums together or create a platform that schedules appointments

Contributors

Lucas Nicolois, Sienna Mosher, Allan La, Lukas Munoz, Matthew Rogge

 

Brainstorming

Bobby Cao, Thomas Ficcadenti, Lucas Gregory, Jingya Wu, Stefano Cobelli

BrainStorming sheet

 

Pre-Proposals

 

Jason Corriveau

Jingya Wu

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